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Friday, July 10, 2015

SOTA Activity Weekend September 12th & 13th

September 12th &
13th is the annual "Summits-on-the-Air" Activity Weekend

North America SOTA
Activity Weekend 2015 is a casual event involving tiny battery-powered radios on
mountain summits. It is not a contest but is intended to introduce "Summits on
the Air" to newcomers with home stations who try to work summit operators during
one or two days. There are no rules regarding power levels, modes or number of
bands worked, but please be courteous when more than one station is trying to
talk to a SOTA operator on a summit. The SOTA operators have just climbed
mountains as high as 14,000 feet; they use low power; and they don't receive on
split frequencies.

Check SOTAWATCH.org to
spot who is on which mountain. Summits are numbered, and you can hover your
cursor over the number to see the name and point value for each summit. Expect
the website to show activity near 7.032, 7.185, 10.110, 14.342, 18.095, 18.155,
21.350, 24.905, 24.955, 28.420, 146.52, 446.00, and 61 Khz up from the bottom of
20, 15 and 10 meters CW. Participants are invited to collect points toward
certificates and trophies offered by the thirteen-year-old international SOTA
group (SOTA.org.UK). As we learned in past years, this is a barrel of fun for
both hill climbers and home operators. See you
then.

About Me

I've been a ham since 1989, and have acheived Top of the Honor Roll and have worked over 1,000 IOTA islands. My next frontier is 160M, 6M, QRP and Summits on the Air.
I also play guitar for The No Refund Band, www.norefundband.com . Check us out if you get a chance. Our latest CD is out on iTunes and Amazon.